He brought out a concept album ‘Watertown’ in 1970 which is the tragic story of a man whose wife leaves him and their two children and moves to a big city
Then he was briefly married to Mia Farrow for two years from 1966 to 1968
He acted in the World War II adventure film ‘Von Ryan’s Express’ in 1965 which was about a group of Allied prisoners who attempt a daring mass escape after Italy's armistice with the Allies in September 1943
In 1960 his album ‘Nice ‘n’ Easy’ was released
The album ‘Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely’ released in 1958 was the one Sinatra considered his personal favorite
His second marriage was to actress Ava Gardner from 1951 to 1957
1 on the Billboard chart and retained its position for the next seven weeks!Over the next few years he released ‘Songs by Sinatra’ (1947), ‘Christmas Songs by Sinatra’ (1948), ‘Frankly Sentimental’ (1949) and ‘Dedicated to You’ (1950)
In 1946, he released his first studio album, ‘The Voice of Frank Sinatra’ which peaked at No
He ventured into Hollywood as an actor during 1940s and in 1953 the film ‘From Here to Eternity’ was released
He had three children with his first wife Nancy Barbato to whom he was married from 1939 to 1951
He started performing in night clubs after leaving school and joined a local band called The Three Flashes in 1935 which was renamed The Hoboken Four upon his joining
During the late 1930s he joined Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra which gave a big boost to his career
On the morning of August 16, 1977, Elvis was found on the floor of his bathroom at Graceland
He met the then president Richard Nixon, on December 21, 1970
On December 3, 1968, he returned to the stage in the acclaimed televised comeback special Elvis
On May 1, 1967, Elvis Presley married Priscilla Beaulie at the Aladdin Hotel in Las Vegas
On March 2,1960, he was discharged from the army with the rank of sergeant and he returned to the United States
On December 20,1957, Presley received a draft notice
In March 1956, he appeared for an audition for the movie ‘Love me Tender’ with the Paramount Movie Studios
The deal was struck on November 21, 1955 and Elvis’s Sun contract was sold for a price of $40,000
Backed with guitarist Scotty Moore and bassist Bill Black, Presley played publicly at the Bon Air Club on 17th July,1954
In June 1953, when he graduated from high school, Presley had already chosen music as his career
His first public performance was on October 3, 1945 at the Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show where he sang ‘Old Shep’
Younger brother of Mississippi Slim (a singer who had a radio show on Tupelo's WELO during the later 1940s) was a classmate of Presley and often took him to the station
Elvis Presley was born in the family of Vernon Elvis Presley and Gladys Love, on January 8, 1935, at Tupelo, Mississippi
